This book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes in climate at global, regional and local scales relevant for ticks and tick-borne infections. It examines changes to tick distribution and the evidence that climate change is responsible. The eff...

Contains the unabridged audiobook and an educational audio guide.The ‘Educational Editions’ from Naxos AudioBooks allow listeners to enjoy important works of fiction and learn about their key elements. Each ‘Educational Edition’ combines the unabridged audiobook with an indispensable audio guide that gives background and author detail and explores the book’s themes, structure, key passages and critical perspectives stimulating content for students and keen listeners wishing to discover mor...

In 1911, fourteen-year-old Lucy Morelli lives with her parents, older brother, and several youngers siblings in a crowded apartment in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Lucy dreams of going to college, but her Italian immigrant family relies heavily on her income from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory to survive. Lucy finds the factory work boring, but the working conditions are better than many other jobs. But when Lucy and her best friend, Rosie, head to work one Saturda...

CURSEDA cursed count, a gifted governess, and a love born in darkness...Governess Isobel Sterling feels fortunate to have found a safe haven in the Montgomery household. The children are kind and the lord and lady of the house leave her alone. Just when her life seems as good as it can get, mysterious visitors arrive from abroad.At first Isobel is flattered by the single-minded attention she receives from their handsome you...

Contains the unabridged audiobook and an educational audio guide.The ‘Educational Editions’ from Naxos AudioBooks allow listeners to enjoy important works of fiction and learn about their key elements. Each ‘Educational Edition’ combines the unabridged audiobook with an indispensable audio guide that gives background and author detail and explores the book’s themes, structure, key passages and critical perspectives stimulating content for students and keen listeners wishing to discover mor...

Lucy Goes to the Beachby Michael GilbertLucy’s back again. Solving another big mystery, but this time in the white, sandy beaches of the mighty Atlantic Ocean. After forming a friendship with the lifeguard, Lucy soon realizes her new friend has been betrayed by the very same girl she helped. Can Lucy now save her new friend’s job from the suspicious blame of her accuser or is this new friend as trustworthy as Lucy first believed?However, the only way to find out is ...

"A hot-tempered heroine and the charmingly undead prove a winning combination." - Kirkus Reviews"Reminiscent of a hard-boiled detective novel, Fire is gritty, sharp, with an edgy quality and a snarky humor." - Liz Konkel for Readers' Favorite ★★★★★A 2017 READERS' FAVORITE SILVER MEDAL WINNER & RONE NOMINATED AUDIOBOOKA kick-ass heroine with pyrokinetic abilities and a license to kill. Enter Alec...vampire, scholar, and worst of all—...

This edited collection about good practice for mental health chaplains and other related professionals looks at how spirituality is viewed across mental health fields. It identifies what mental health chaplaincy is, how mental health chaplaincy interacts with other organisations like the NHS, and what good practice means with examples of positive and fulfilling experiences in mental health settings.The chapters consider some of the main issues of working with the mental health comm...

A cursed count, a gifted governess, and a love born in darkness...Governess Isobel Sterling feels fortunate to have found a safe haven in the Montgomery household. The children are kind and the lord and lady of the house leave her alone. Just when her life seems as good as it can get, mysterious visitors arrive from abroad.At first Isobel is flattered by the single-minded attention she receives from their handsome young guest, the Conte Matteo Gari...

Si Scarlett a choisi de se marier à Londres, à Noël, c'est parce qu'elle adore la neige et qu'elle est tombée amoureuse de l'Angleterre autant que des yeux noirs de son prince charmant britannique. Leur histoire n'a pas commencé sous les meilleurs auspices, et la demande en mariage le genou dans la neige, à côté d'une vache suicidaire, n'était pas des plus romantique. Mais maintenant, à une semaine du mariage, il ne peut plus rien arriver, n'est-ce pas ? Pourtant, il suffit d'un grain dans...

A collection of stories written in duet.Eight highly original stories, each woven from the joint inspiration of two amazing writers.Sixteen celebrated authors respond, play, twist and develop their story in turn. Without the certainty of being in full control, Duets brings a new dimension to the drama of reading and writing.

Life with Fred and Lucy is not only a story about my childhood and growing up in South Philadelphia, but it's also a story about the two ghosts that live up in my attic. I'm not afraid of these ghosts. They know me and I know them. They don't always stay at my house. Sometimes, they'll visit my sisters and my daughter. Ghosts don't usually like to interact with the living as much as the two who reside in my attic, but they say you are in death as you were in life. Fred and Lucy were very s...